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God failed with 1/3 of the angels so your ideas on sovereignty have just gone out the window. The Divine will can and has been violated by angels and men.
The timeline of Salvation? Are you following along at all? I want to know who was saved at the cross? Calvinists proclaim that Jesus only died for the elect and the bible proclaims that Jesus died for all people. If I have mis-characterized your beliefs please set me straight. Did Jesus die for the whole world on the cross or just a subset of the whole world?
We have been here before and I believe that I stated that it is the Holy Spirit that leads all men to Christ not time or chance or a roll of the dice. So this we be the third time I have had to re-state my position. I'm sure it won't be the last.
So I believe in Christ and God, so following the calvinist statement, am I one of God's chosen people?
Did he fail with them? Reading Revelation, it seems that he has a pretty good end game planned for them, with absolute certainty that he will win. If they thwarted his will and he lost control of them, then how can he be so certain that he can beat them in the end?
JLR1300 answered this in detail with scripture.
"as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed" Acts 13:48
So yes, if you have believed then obviously you were appointed to eternal life.
Jesus said in John 6:37 "All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out"
Since you have come to Jesus it is proof that the Father has granted it in your case, because as Jesus said in John 6:65, "no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father"
So being lost and getting sent to hell is not thwarting God's plan? Angels and men were created perfect and sinless so falling into sin is a loss of control. If heaven were a factory God's workmanship would be called into question because he has a failure rate of 33 percent. That's not good and those defective products have caused everyone on earth to become defective. This casts a shadow on God.
So typical when backed into a corner they will flee from the truth. I asked you what was your position on the cross I did not ask JLR. Your avoidance of the question shows that you are no different than the reprobates you condemn. It should be obvious who the real reprobate is.
So being lost and getting sent to hell is not thwarting God's plan? Angels and men were created perfect and sinless so falling into sin is a loss of control. If heaven were a factory God's workmanship would be called into question because he has a failure rate of 33 percent. That's not good and those defective products have caused everyone on earth to become defective. This casts a shadow on God.
Not really. If creation was a factory, God would be a specialist in rework with regards to humans at this time in history. The failure rate on the products that he has reworked is 0%.
Let me ask you this: do you believe in Anthropogenic Global Climate Change/Warming/Cooling?
The angels do not get reworked. They are being scheduled for extermination in the lake of fire. Violating God's will does have consequences. And I am not trying to play devil's advocate. All the angels were created perfect so they were fine when they left the factory. The defect occurred later on of their own devices so it can't really be charged back to God. His workmanship is perfect so the defect lies in the creation not the creator. God has rules and the rules were broken so the guilty will suffer the punishment.
There isn't much actually said about the nature of angels in the bible. What is your source for all these "facts"?
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